It will have no vertical columns around the perimeter, creating corner views that are not possible in a typically framed building.

Diagrid form termed as the ‘birds’ mouths.’ They open up most of the floors and allow a much more panoramic view

Win Win Situation

As it is situated above the subway, the project also had to go through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. In the end, in exchange for improvements to the subway station—including a new entrance, installing three elevators and adding moving stairwells—Hearst was given a bonus of six floors to add onto the tower.

Diagrid Pattern:

Triangular bracing on the perimeter of a skyscraper is not new. It has been done before, most notably for the John Hancock Building in Chicago.

“The triangular frames carry the gravity load and has inherent strength and resistance to the lateral loads, seismic and wind

The triangles are so efficient in terms of bearing both the gravity and lateral loads, the building use 21 percent less steel (9,500 metric tons) than a conventional building of its size.

Green Features

Hearst Tower is the first green building completed in New York City

The floor of the atrium is paved with heat conductive limestone.

Polyethylene tubing is embedded under the floor and filled with circulating water for cooling in the summer and heating in the winter.

Rain collected on the roof is stored in a tank in the basement for use in the cooling system, to irrigate plants and for the water sculpture in the main lobby.

The building was constructed using 80% recycled steel. Overall, the building has been designed to use 25% less energy than the minimum requirements for the city of New York

No use of materials, coatings and adhesives that emit volatile organic compounds — known as V.O.C.’s

Glass in the building have a coating that tends to admit visible light while reflecting a large part of the invisible solar radiation that causes heat.

Light and motion sensors are installed as well, to turn off lights when people are absent or when there is enough natural light coming the glass outer wall that artificial lighting is not needed.

Earned a gold designation from the USGBC LEED certification program.

Entering from the existing arch it opens up and what one see is

Three escalators in front to the third floor level.

Those escalators are set into a sloping water sculpture, which will cascade down past one as goes up.

Like this:

“Technology is part of civilization and being anti-technology would be like declaring war on architecture and civilization itself. If I can get carried away with some passion about the poetry of the light in one of my projects, then I can also, in the same vein, enjoy the poetry of the hydraulic engineering.”

The best architecture comes from a synthesis of all the elements that separately comprise and inform the character of a building:

structure that holds it up;

services that allow it to function;

its ecology;

quality of natural light;

symbolism of the form;

the way you move through or around it;

its ability to lift the spirits.

Willis Faber and Dumas ,Ipswich,UK:

Statistics: Area: 21 000 m2

Height: 21.5 m

Client: Willis Faber and Dumas Ltd

New social dimension.

Democratising the workplace and engendering a sense of community.

Features:

CHAOS

LOW RISE BUILDING

ALL AROUND URBAN PLANNING

Design according to the site.

Pushing the limits of technology, the mullion-free solar-tinted-glass curtain wall.

sheath-like glass curtain wall.

By day, the glass reflects an eclectic collage of Ipswichs old buildings; by night it dissolves dramatically to reveal the building within.

use of escalators in a three-storey structure, the central atrium, and the social dimension offered by its swimming pool, roof-top garden and restaurant, were all conceived in a spirit of democratizing the workplace and engendering a sense of community.